Here's a short New Player Guide for v0.15 (excerpted from my review) to help new players get into the game more smoothly and avoid the clunky-ness.
- Updated Some Info for v0.18.
Things I wish I'd known before I played:
1. It's absolutely MANDATORY to read the Controls page on the main menu thoroughly before you play. It's actually funny that some people gave this game low ratings for problems caused by themselves not reading the Controls. Quick notes: Holding spacebar helps a lot in finding quest items like herbs. Pressing ESC skips animations in a lot of circumstances.
2. Walking too slow? Right-click to fast travel, both on the world map and inside a location. When you are heading for an unexplored location, right-click on the closest known location to the destination then exit to reduce annoying travel time. This trick helps a ton especially before you get your ride. For Jade, press esc to skip the animation of her walking towards her shuttle. v0.18 update: You can now right-click on space shuttle as Jade.
Update: you can right-click on the red X for treasure hunting quests to grab it telekinetically.
3. Get your ride ASAP when playing as Drake or Freya/Cain for drastically faster world map exploration and material gathering.
4. All three protagonists will have the ability at some point to gather and respawn materials and craft things with them. Pay attention to quests that unlock these abilities. Once you unlock material respawn, proceed through the corresponding quest and level it up to lvl 5 ASAP to make respawning wait time at least acceptable.
5. The game autosaves whenever you enter a location. Remember you can Load Autosave from main menu whenever you need, like when the game crashes.
6. Doll collection works pretty much the same as in Nenad's previous game AOWD. As a general rule of thumb, a girl's bronze doll can be found when and where you meet her for the first time. The silver one only appears after you saw her naked or did something lewd to her, the gold after you fucked her, and the platinum after group sex (As of v0.18 no character except Freya, Jade and Maya has any platinum/diamond doll).
Warning: Some dolls are well hidden and painfully hard to find.
Two annoying puzzles new players get stuck most at the beginning:
Drake: To get out of the basement, click on the HOOK inside the bucket, NOT the bucket. They are two different clickables.
Freya: Toilet Password can be found in the picture of Nenad and Elena hanging on the wall of their shelter, above Elena's head.
Walkthrough
For those who need it but don't know, there's a fan-made walkthrough posted here (walkthrough made by slawdos).
I read the control, and it doesn't help like AT ALL. I look at walkthrough and said go to world map in Jade or go inside your house in Drake, but there is nothing to click or whatever.
I read the control, and it doesn't help like AT ALL. I look at walkthrough and said go to world map in Jade or go inside your house in Drake, but there is nothing to click or whatever.
if you can't go to world map - you didn't use Gamer code or didn't applied it properly. you should enter code and then click on words Gamer code. if it changes to yellow - you good to go
